Human Rights Defenders Special Rapporteur on the denial of registration to the LGBT Centre

Written by Administrator Monday, 10 May 2010 23:15

One of the very important human rights mechanisms at the UN is the institution of special procedures. The mechanism based on the UN Charter appoints special mandate holders to investigate,report back to the UN Human Rights Council and demand the country to stop the violation or to guarantee certain rights it's allowing to be breached, regardless of whether the country in question joined the treaty it's violating or not.

Last year when we received the first official, written explanation of the registration denial, we contacted Emerlynne Gil, Human Rights Defenders Programme Manager at Forum Asia, and she took our problem to Ms. Margaret Sekaggya, the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Defenders, which she then reflected in her 2009 report here.